'Homefront' Red Band Trailer: James Franco Smashes Kneecaps

October 19, 2013 (4:28 am) GMT

The 'Spring Breakers' actor channels his violent side as an angry drug lord who finds out someone is trying to invade his territory.

An age-restricted trailer for action thriller "Homefront" has just arrived, giving a more look at James Franco as a sadistic unforgiving meth-cooking gangster. In one scene, he pays some new meth traffickers a visit and beat their leader to a bloody pulp with what looks like a baseball bat.

Next come Phil Broker played by Jason Statham. The DEA agent retires to the small town in hopes to live a quite life with his daughter, but he crosses paths with the drug kingpin, Gator Bodine, when their kids get into a playground fight. Now Phil has to protect his family from Gator and his band of thugs.